Security is beefed up in Maiduguri and environs as President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to visit the town. The President would inaugurate viable projects executed by Borno state governor, Babagana Zulum’s administration during the visit to the state. These include the Custom flyover, 20km Custom-Muna dual carriageway. Buhari will also inaugurate the Centre For Distance Learning, University of Maiduguri, donated by Mohammed Indimi an oil mogul. The Commissioner of Police, Abdu Umar, said that the command has deployed substantial number of its personnel for the visit of Buhari to the state. Umar said in Maiduguri that personnel deployed include; men of…
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Zamfara state Police Command have rescued a three-month-old baby and seized sophisticated weapons from bandits. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ayuba Elkanah made this known during an interview with newsmen in Gusau on Wednesday. He said that the victims were abducted from Ruggar Tudu village in Bungudu local government area of Zamfara. Elkanah revealed that the police operatives also arrested three suppliers of hard drugs to bandits, and recovered some items from bandits. They include one motorcycle, eight AK-47 rifles, one General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), one Rocket launcher, and five magazines. While giving an update on the…
By Abujah Racheal Nigeria recorded a new high of 4,035 new COVID-19 infections in 15 states on Wednesday showing close to 100 per cent increase over the 2,123 infections recorded on Tuesday. Lagos state maintained its lead on the table with 3,393 cases, up from 1,552 cases it recorded on Tuesday. Its total as at Wednesday was 89,355 infections. Other states are Rivers (260), Edo (62), Akwa Ibom (42), Kaduna (39), Ekiti (38) Oyo (38). Delta and Kano recorded 31 new infections each. Ogun State also recorded 30 new infections, while Abia had 26; Bauchi State had 15; Ondo State…
By Justina Auta The Girls Act of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) on Wednesday organised a football match to sensitise Waru community in the FCT on ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV). The event was organised in collaboration with the Strong Enough Girls Empowerment Initiative as part of activities to commemorate the 16 Days of Activism against GBV. Linda Raji, the Programme Officer of Strong Enough Girls Empowerment Initiative, said the event was to create more advocacy on human rights, ending GBV and involvement of all stakeholders to eliminate the practice. “This is us trying to catch them young and…
Kwara state governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has commended PRNigeria for its factual, fair and accurate reportage, especially in fact- checking and identification of fake news. The governor said this when Image Marchant Promotions Limited (IMPR) team – Publishers of PRNigeria and Economic Confidential – led by its founder, Yushau Shuaib paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Ilorin on Tuesday. Abdulrazaq assured that the state government will work with PRNigeria in awareness creation on the state government’s activities and capacity building for government officials in the state ministries, departments and agencies. He also pledged to join hands with…
The National Executive Council of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA-NEC) on Wednesday, adopted an online payment of practising fees for Nigerian lawyers from year 2022. This is contained in a communique signed by NBA President, Olumide Akpata and made available to newsmen on Wednesday. The communique was issued at the end of the quarterly meeting of the NBA-NEC held on Dec. 16. According to the resolution, “NEC resolves that with effect from January 1, 2022, payment for bar practicing fees by lawyers, shall be done online and no longer manually in banking halls “NEC commended the NBA President, Olumide Akpata…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), on Wednesday, swore in the new officers to man the Sokoto State Council for the next three years. The new executive emerged unopposed following the withdrawal of other contestants from the race. Dalhatu Abdullahi of the Nigeria Television Authority, Sokoto, emerged as the new Chairman while Abbas Sanyinna from Rima Radio, became the Vice Chairman. Also Muhammad Nasir-Bello, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), emerged as the new council secretary, while Aliyu Shuni of The Path Newspaper) became the new Treasurer. Others are Tukur Arkilla, Rima Television, as Assistant Secretary, Abubakar Isah, also of Rima…
The Senate has passed 2022 Appropriation Bill of N17.126 trillion. This followed the adoption of the recommendations of the report of its Committee on Appropriations at plenary on Wednesday. Presenting the report, Sen. Barau Jibrin, the Chairman of the committee said the committee increased the oil price benchmark from 57 to 62 dollars to reflect the current market value in the international market. “The committee recommended that the additional revenue should be channelled to the following ministries and agencies that forwarded their requests for more funding for very critical projects. “They include the Ministry of Works and Housing, Independent National…
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has called on the National Assembly, NASS, to immediately remove the provisions on direct primaries as raised by President Muhammad Buhari. CDD’s Director, Idayat Hassan, in a statement in Abuja said the call became imperative against the backdrop of President Mohammad Buhari’s decision to decline assent to the Electoral Bill 2021. Hassan also urged the National Assembly to thereafter re-present the bill to the President for his assent. She said that NASS should redeem the situation to strengthen Nigeria’s democracy. “As the election is just 14 months away, the CDD is calling on the National Assembly…
The the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd has disclosed that its downstream subsidiary, the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) made sales in July 2021 to the tune of total sum of ₦203.73 billion. This was contained in the July 2021 figures of the NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR), the 72nd edition of the Report. The report also revealed that total revenues generated from the sales of white products for the period July 2020 to July 2021 stood at over ₦2.563 trillion where PMS contributed about 99.67% of the total sales. Similarly, a total of 1.544 billion litres…